Local Restaurants

I'm grateful for our local restaurants, like Sea Island and Fat Tummy Empanadas and Gogi Street and Dough.  There are so many that I still want to try, too.  San Antonio has so many restaurant choices that if a place isn't good, it usually doesn't last long. 

Lip balm

Seriously, in this cold weather, lip balm is something my whole family is grateful for.  I'm going to make it with my girls in the very near future using the recipe from the Farmer's Almanac.

Dog training

The new puppy is named Thunder.  She is amazing.  I'm training her to be a working dog and she is a natural.  My nerdlet is on the spectrum and we have had elopement scares twice since she has moved to the middle school, (STEM Academy) that she is attending, so my plan was basically to teach the puppy to behave in public and to track and find the girls (mostly the nerdlet and the bear cub), but she is such a natural that I have bigger plans for her now. 

One of the things that I often misplace is my phone.  I always know where it is when I am home, but I pick it up when leaving the house and inevitably something or someone distracts me and I put it down in some unstandard place.  At that point, I use the computer to call it and then listen for the ring to find it.  Today when I called it, Thunder ran to the phone (in the bathroom) and barked at it.  She is going to be very, very helpful if she can find and retrieve things.

Warmth

I'm so grateful for a warm house.  It is so COLD outside.  The wind is blowing so hard that my van was swaying back and forth and that I was sure something was going to fly from the side of the road into the side of the van.  Here in San Antonio, we rarely have a freeze in November and it looks like we will have multiple days of freezes, some with precipitation, and we are not prepared for that ever.  San Antonio doesn't have salt or sand for the road or the vehicles to even distribute it.  On top of that, our city is huge - larger than multiple cities up north (and one state).  So I'm grateful for a well insulated house and family and furry family to warm it.

Stay warm, people.

Pinterest

I am grateful for Pinterest.  I used to use bookmarks which worked well enough but it is much nicer to have pictures.  Without Pinterest, I would have 50,000 tabs open on my computer, mostly of recipes and sewing ideas.  Even with Pinterest, I always have a handful of these tabs open.  I also love that people can recommend pins to you, though so far only my sister does that.

Movie nights

My husband and I rarely have a night to ourselves, especially since we have extra children living with us, so I am extremely grateful for the times that we get to spend by ourselves. 

Last night we saw the newest Addams Family movie, which we chose based mostly on what was available at the time, but we ended up enjoying it immensely.

I particularly enjoyed the soundtrack and the last song "My Family" by Migos · KAROL G · Snoop Dogg · Rock Mafia, so much so that I've listened to it quite a few times since seeing the movie last night.

Some Days

Some days I am grateful just to get through.  This was one of those days.